June- 25 August 2007
The Hopper exhibition in the Winter Palace (Halls Nr 28-32, near the Saltykov Entrance) is Russia's first showing of works by one of Hollywood's legendary actors and it is the most complete public display of his works (80 items) in fifty years.
The exhibition has been jointly organized by the State Hermitage and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation (New York), together with the RI Group, with the support of the General Consulate of the USA in St Petersburg and with sponsorship assistance from Vladimir Kekhman, General Director of the M.P. Mussorgsky St Petersburg State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet.
Dennis Hopper (born 1936) is a world renowned American actor and cinema director who created cult films and unforgettable images of actors. The exhibition in the Hermitage will familiarize visitors with the less well known side of his work, introducing the Russian audience to Hopper the photographer, painter and sculptor.
The exhibition includes works that were chosen by the artist himself: black and white photographs from the 1960s, color photos of the city, assemblages, excerpts from films and large-format billboards, some of which are being shown for the first time. Among the well known personalities whom Hopper photographed during the 1960s were Jasper Jones, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Paul Newman and David Hockney and Irving Bloom. During these years, in Hopper's words, photography was the only form of creativity for him.
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